Making Multipage Menus the Easy Way, Part 2

Last week, I discussed making a simple two page menu. Susan, our Art Director, put together an example of simple changes to make when putting together a 2 page menu.

Next, Susan used the Goblet Wine Bar Menu to demonstrate how to create a more refined two-paged menu. Since this is a more complicated process, I wrote down what to do in Word, step-by-step.

1. Download the menu, open it and save a copy as page 2. This way, you are starting with two identical pages, with different names.
2. Open the first page, delete the restaurant logo and add your own.
3. Copy and paste all the wine information into one of the text boxes. Click and delete the other text box. Highlight and delete all the food text from the remaining text box. Delete the references to Bar Food.
4. Widen the column by clicking on it and pulling the side handle to the right.
5. Click on the text box and drag it to center it in the open space.
6. Highlight all the copy and increase the text size.
7. Save and your first page is finished!1. For the second page, click on the background (large wine glass). Under Format>Rotate, click on Flip Horizontal. The background is now a mirror image of the original. An easy and nice look for a 2 page menu.
2. Click in the text box and delete the restaurant logo.
3. In the same text box, type the restaurant's tag line and change it to be in the same font as the rest of the menu.
4. In the red area where the word "Chic" used to be, create a new text box, then type in a food special.
5. Select and copy the bar food text in the left text box.
6. Click your cursor on the other text box and paste it in, then deleted the entire first text box and delete the wine copy from the 2nd text box.
7. Click on the text box and widen it, then drag it more towards the center of the menu.
8. Click on the graphic that says "Bar Food" and under Height, changed the measurement to 1". Making it smaller balanced it with the similar Wine headers on the other page. When the menu was one page, the different sizes made it more dynamic. When it became 2 pages, making the headers the same size harmonized the design.
9. Copy and paste the text about Bar Food prices into a new text box, move it and make the text larger, again to balance the page.

When we compared the final pages, Susan decided to make part of the wine text on the first page Bold, in order to balance the two pages even more. Voila! A second page for bar food.
As well as creating a nice flow, this also gives your menu a custom look. MustHaveMenus is expanding its multipage menu offerings in the future, but if you find a menu you like, it's easy to add more pages.